RCE 58: K Computer
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Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Koh Hota and Shinji Sumimoto about the K Computer the current faster public computer in the world housed at the Riken AICS. Koh Hotta is a director of Quality Assurance Project and Software Development Division in Next Generation Technical Computing Unit in Fujitsu. He joined Fujitsu Ltd. in 1980, where he has been engaged in development of compilers for high performance computer systems. And he is also a director of board of OpenMP ARB since 2004. He has received the B.S. degree in Information Science from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 1980 and the Masters degree in Management from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 2001. He was the leader of the group of Advanced Parallelizing Compiler Technology in the Advanced Parallelizing Compiler Japanese National Project from 2000 to 2003. Shinji Sumimoto,PhD is a senior architect and a director in Software Development division of Next Generation Technical Computing unit at Fujitsu Ltd, and, a research fellow of IT systems lab at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. He is in charge of technical development of high performance communication software including MPI and Cluster file system. He is a board member of MPI forum. |